Women and Muslim Family Laws in Arab States
A Comparative Overview of Textual Development and Advocacy

Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
240 pages
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6-1/3 x 9-1/2
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Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
1. Introduction
2. Codification of Muslim personal status law in Arab states
3. Arab state codifications and women’s rights advocacy in the third phase of family law reform
4. Shar`i postulates, statutory law and the judiciary
5. Registration requirements
6. Capacity and consent
7. Polygyny
8. The marital relationship
9. Divorce
10. Parents and children
11. Concluding Comment
List of statutes cited
Selected Statutory Provisions:
1. Capacity/guardianship
2. Polygyny
3. The marital relationship
4. Stipulations
5. Judicial khul` and comparable provisions
1. Introduction
2. Codification of Muslim personal status law in Arab states
3. Arab state codifications and women’s rights advocacy in the third phase of family law reform
4. Shar`i postulates, statutory law and the judiciary
5. Registration requirements
6. Capacity and consent
7. Polygyny
8. The marital relationship
9. Divorce
10. Parents and children
11. Concluding Comment
List of statutes cited
Selected Statutory Provisions:
1. Capacity/guardianship
2. Polygyny
3. The marital relationship
4. Stipulations
5. Judicial khul` and comparable provisions
6. Compensation for injurious/arbitrary divorce
Glossary of Arabic terms
Bibliography
Index
Glossary of Arabic terms
Bibliography
Index
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